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Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol.…Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol.…
Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol. 2, part 2] with an universal history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitive age to these latter times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperors, as now lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realm of England and Scotland. Newly revised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time again published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the help of Christ our Lord) John Fox, which desireth thee good reader to help him with thy prayer.Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 2, part 2] with an vniuersall history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions agaynst the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as nowe lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Newly reuised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the helpe of Christ our Lord) Iohn Foxe, which desireth thee good reader to helpe him with thy prayer.
London: printed by John Daye, 1583London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1583
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❧ The Oration of M. Acworth, Orator of the University, at the restitution of Martin Bucer, and Paulus Phagius.
❧ The Oration of M. Acworth, Oratour of the Vniuersitie, at the restitution of Martin Bucer, and Paulus Phagius.
I Am in doubt whether I may entreat of the praise and commendation of so great a Clarke (for the celebrating whereof,1 this assembly and concourse of yours is made this day) or of the vices and calamities, out of the which we be newly delivered, or of them both, considering the one cannot be mentioned without the other. In the which times ye felt so much anguish and sorrow (my right dear brethren) that if I should repeat them and bring them to remembrance again, I fear me, I should not so much work a just hatred in us towards them, for the injuries received in them, as renew our old sorrow and heaviness. Again, men must needs account me unadvised and foolish in my doing, if I should think my self able to make him which hath lived before our eyes in praise and estimation, more famous and notable by my Oration, which he by his living and conversation hath oftentimes polished. But the wickedness of the times which endeavoured to wipe clean out of remembrance of men the name that was so famous and renowned in every mans mouth, did much profit him. In so much, that both in his life time all thing redounded to his continual renown, and in especially, after his decease nothing could be devised more honourable, then with so solemn furniture & ceremonies, to have gone about to have hurt the memorial of such a worthy man, & yet could not bring to pass the thing that was so sore coveted, but rather brought that thing to pass, which was chiefly sought to be avoided. For the desire that men have of the dead, hath purchased to many men everlasting fame, and hath not taken away immortality, but rather amplified and increased the same. By means whereof it cometh to pass, that he that will entreat of those things that pertain to the praise of Bucer after his death, can not choose but speak of the crabbedness of the times past, upon the which riseth a great increase and augmentation of his praise. But his life so excellently set forth, not only by the writings of the learned Clerks, Cheek and Car, and by the lively voice of the right famous D. Haddon, uttered in this place to the great admiration of all the hearers, when his body should be laid into his grave to be buried, and after his burial by the godly and most holy preachings of the right Reverend father in Christ the Archbishop of Canterbury that now is, and of D.